Author Archives: Gelay

Children of a Lesser God

By Gelay | Published: April 2, 2009
Children of a lesser god perhaps but beautiful, hopeful souls nonetheless. The poor of Thamji and Tamey Damchu, when we meet them face to face, emerge from behind statistics and poverty figures as all too human with tragic stories. Tshedem is beautiful. Her years of toil in the fields, the burden of crushing poverty, and [...]
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Portrait of An Artist

By Gelay | Published: March 31, 2009
Pema Tshering dreamed of working as an artist. He wanted it so bad, he quit his nine to five cushy job and plunged into his newfound profession.  The 25-year-old has a computer application degree and was working at the Bhutan Power corporation and had been there barely nine months. There are few risk takers like [...]
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Happy Birthday Kuenga

By Gelay | Published: March 23, 2009
Everybody loves Kuenga: Kuenga has been with us since the beginning. She grew up with VAST. Kuenga works for the Royal Government, but she can be trusted to do stuff for VAST anytime. Kuenga is the only baker among us. She cannot say NO. Happy Birthday Kuenga. Many many good wishes to you.
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